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The Slanted Lens shoots world famous trick roper Will Roberts with speedlites trying for shots that both freeze the rope and shots that blur the rope. I have chosen to place the direct sun as a rim light. In doing so, I have turned the negative of direct sun into a positive rim light and my ?rst Read MoreRead More

Bammo’s 5 Minute FX Guy shows you how to apply the echo effect in After Effects, how to create light trails using tracking, how to adjust directions of your blur in After Effects, how to add color and glow effects in After Effects, how to create masks, and how to duplicate your shots in After Effects.Read More

Weapons of Mass Production’s Kevin Good dives into the subject of flash photography. Flash lighting or Strobe lighting is a foreign territory for filmmakers not used to photography, but it can add a new dimension to your work.Read More

Here’s an absolutely ingenious DIY project for adding a soft bounce to your flash unit. Even though this is a project for photography, this should give you some ideas for creating other types of bounces and diffusers for continuous lighting setups for motion picture (just remember, they don’t call them “hot lights” for nothing so Read MoreRead More

You got the DSLR for making films, but you want to take some good portraits… Maybe you just don’t want to spend the money on a real beauty dish. Here’s a cheap way of pulling off that soft fill look. I don’t really need a beauty dish as I rarely shoot in studio mode or Read MoreRead More